512K of L2 cache is suckage, especially for a processor with a slow bus speed (and in a laptop that's always the case). The benchmarks were too good to believe in them. There's simply no competition to P-M on the market at this point. Even Transmeta is smoking nervously in the corner.
I got modded through the floor for saying this when these benchmarks first appeared. Now it turns out I was right.
Tell them that a career in CS is the crappiest choice they can make. Now that more and more jobs are moving to India, we don't want these kids taking all the remaining jobs from us, "old" people. Even if they're willing to work for a dime a day.
There aren't that many female scientists, architects and composers either. These are three professions "in the real world" that are closest to what a real programmer does. After all, coding is not what the Nature created them for.
I thought the bandwidth between RAM and the processor was the main limitation of the current processors, not bandwidth within the processor itself.
Besides, P-M has a maximum power dissipation of 24W (or 12W for ULV version) whereas Turion is 35W. Those P-M laptops already run pretty darn hot. I'm not sure I'm willing to buy a laptop that's 40% "warmer".
The reason why Pentium-M is as performant as it is is in part because it has 2MB of on-die cache. Don't expect miracles from a chip that has a half or even one fourth of that.
Then ripped out all the leather, wood trimmings, chrome plated parts, etc. and replaced it all with treadplate stainless steel. Seats would be covered with sandpaper, and there would be no steering wheel. Real men don't need steering wheels anyway, they can drive from the console.
There you go, for a few bucks more you have no condensation. And if you want liquid cooling, transformer oil doesn't cost that much. It's used in sub-station transformers.
Jeez, some people have WAY too much money on hand. You could buy a small freezer for a lot less than $700. Just put your entire PC case in it, route the cables outside and there you go, phase change cooling system for a lot less (tm).
I wish my employer would allow us to work 10 hours a day 4 days a week, instead of the typical 8x5. That would allow me to relax better over the extended weekend and concentrated better during the extended work day. I think it's a win-win thing and I'm surprised nobody thought about this in this cost-cutting climate. Of course they want me to work 10 hours a day 7 days a week anyway, but I have a 1 year old kid, so I tell them to fuck off. They seem to understand.
Fedora at this point is the best distro out there. It has the best installer, it has SELinux, it even has decent i18n support (Ubuntu, are you listening?). You install it and it "just works" (tm) and that's about all I want from a Linux distro. I run a personal web server off of my DSL connection and I don't have time and desire to spend my nights and weekends recompiling the kernel, putting in SELinux and trying to set up non-US locale. I can do all of this, but why should I in year 2005?
Yeah, I agree, Linus kernel is not good for production use. Give Linus a good thwack on the forehead and he may die. Or he may not. It's unpredictable and unacceptable.
Now back in my day, kernels were only found in nuts.
His contract most likely includes the traditional "do not compete" clause, which will prevent him from doing work that competes with MSFT for quite some time.
And that's exactly the problem. You wouldn't even begin building a house or making a car without full and complete specifications. In software development you're expected to make shit up on the fly, and then they expect quality out of whatever you produce. Not just that, but the schedule usually allocates 30% less time for development than needed, so you either have to bust your ass, or release a subpar product.
How does agile development address these issues? That's right it doesn't address them.
Test-driven development is a good thing. Every self-respecting developer should write unit tests for his own code, and release it to test in a functional form.
Everything else in agile development methodologies is a bunch of horseshit, I'm afraid. 95% of software development problems would be solved by having good, descriptive, well thought out specs. So that developer wouldn't have to guess what the heck program manager meant by this and that.
My point is, development is usually good enough given clear, coherent specs as an input. You can't improve the product just by imposing an artificial work routine on developers. You need to get some good PMs first and foremost.
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512K of L2 cache is suckage, especially for a processor with a slow bus speed (and in a laptop that's always the case). The benchmarks were too good to believe in them. There's simply no competition to P-M on the market at this point. Even Transmeta is smoking nervously in the corner.
I got modded through the floor for saying this when these benchmarks first appeared. Now it turns out I was right.
Tell them that a career in CS is the crappiest choice they can make. Now that more and more jobs are moving to India, we don't want these kids taking all the remaining jobs from us, "old" people. Even if they're willing to work for a dime a day.
Except that volume would be measured in mm^3. :0)
Geeky would mean the same thing but _without_ the instructions.
There aren't that many female scientists, architects and composers either. These are three professions "in the real world" that are closest to what a real programmer does. After all, coding is not what the Nature created them for.
So it still needs the full chipset. Therefore you're not guessing right.
I thought the bandwidth between RAM and the processor was the main limitation of the current processors, not bandwidth within the processor itself.
Besides, P-M has a maximum power dissipation of 24W (or 12W for ULV version) whereas Turion is 35W. Those P-M laptops already run pretty darn hot. I'm not sure I'm willing to buy a laptop that's 40% "warmer".
The reason why Pentium-M is as performant as it is is in part because it has 2MB of on-die cache. Don't expect miracles from a chip that has a half or even one fourth of that.
How about showing us a beowulf cluster of nude Natalie Portman overlords in Soviet Russia, you, insensitive clod?
I, for one, would welcome that. Despite the PG13 rating.
Just google for it. I'd rather pay $20 than suffer through an audit.
Then ripped out all the leather, wood trimmings, chrome plated parts, etc. and replaced it all with treadplate stainless steel. Seats would be covered with sandpaper, and there would be no steering wheel. Real men don't need steering wheels anyway, they can drive from the console.
Next time use high pressure hydraulics, and crush this teenage girl's arm. That'll teach her.
"Wireless XML mesh adaptive grid networking high speed premium edition XP ultra pro elite extreme" standard.
Just think about the synergies and win-win go to market opportunities that can be obtained by utilizing it.
There you go, for a few bucks more you have no condensation. And if you want liquid cooling, transformer oil doesn't cost that much. It's used in sub-station transformers.
Half a year after Apple releases Mac OS X Tiger.
Jeez, some people have WAY too much money on hand. You could buy a small freezer for a lot less than $700. Just put your entire PC case in it, route the cables outside and there you go, phase change cooling system for a lot less (tm).
I wish my employer would allow us to work 10 hours a day 4 days a week, instead of the typical 8x5. That would allow me to relax better over the extended weekend and concentrated better during the extended work day. I think it's a win-win thing and I'm surprised nobody thought about this in this cost-cutting climate. Of course they want me to work 10 hours a day 7 days a week anyway, but I have a 1 year old kid, so I tell them to fuck off. They seem to understand.
I thought the biggest threat was incorrect assembly (Columbia), manufacturing defects (Challenger) and parts falling off at launch (Columbia).
Fedora at this point is the best distro out there. It has the best installer, it has SELinux, it even has decent i18n support (Ubuntu, are you listening?). You install it and it "just works" (tm) and that's about all I want from a Linux distro. I run a personal web server off of my DSL connection and I don't have time and desire to spend my nights and weekends recompiling the kernel, putting in SELinux and trying to set up non-US locale. I can do all of this, but why should I in year 2005?
Yeah, I agree, Linus kernel is not good for production use. Give Linus a good thwack on the forehead and he may die. Or he may not. It's unpredictable and unacceptable.
Now back in my day, kernels were only found in nuts.
His contract most likely includes the traditional "do not compete" clause, which will prevent him from doing work that competes with MSFT for quite some time.
My favorite guides to internet bodies are www.worldsex.com and www.thehun.net
To watch their cranial bubble gum. $50 a month doesn't seem too steep. I'd even leave commercials on while I'm out to take a leak.
And that's exactly the problem. You wouldn't even begin building a house or making a car without full and complete specifications. In software development you're expected to make shit up on the fly, and then they expect quality out of whatever you produce. Not just that, but the schedule usually allocates 30% less time for development than needed, so you either have to bust your ass, or release a subpar product.
How does agile development address these issues? That's right it doesn't address them.
Test-driven development is a good thing. Every self-respecting developer should write unit tests for his own code, and release it to test in a functional form.
Everything else in agile development methodologies is a bunch of horseshit, I'm afraid. 95% of software development problems would be solved by having good, descriptive, well thought out specs. So that developer wouldn't have to guess what the heck program manager meant by this and that.
My point is, development is usually good enough given clear, coherent specs as an input. You can't improve the product just by imposing an artificial work routine on developers. You need to get some good PMs first and foremost.